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Business culture is not just about how others see a business but also about how the individuals within an organization understand it. The cultural perspective has become popular in business studies because it offers a way of explaining performance and understanding differences. FACTORS THAT SHAPE THE CULTURE OF A BUSINESS The Influence of a dominant leader- The vision of management style and personality of the founder or leader in a business often has a significant influence on the values that the business tries to promote. The history and tradition of the business; how things have always been done and why. Which industry or sector the business is in and how much and what type of competition it faces. The customers of the business, who they are and what they expect. Company expectations; based on a large extent on past performance. The types of information and control system used. The legislation and wider business environment. The procedures and policies within t...

In 2011, Nigeria was ranked number fourteen in the Failed States Index, just below other “havens of stability”-Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq! State failure has many definitions, so I will bother the reader with only two short descriptions relevant to the Nigerian situation: [A failed state] is one that is unable to perform its duties on several levels when violence cascades into an all-out internal war, when standards of living massively deteriorate, when the infrastructure of ordinary life decays, and when the greed of ruler overwhelms their responsibilities to better their people and their surroundings. [Failed State are seen in] instances in which central state authority collapses for several years. Economic deprivation and corruption produce and exacerbate financial and social inequities in a population, which in turn fuel political instability. Within this environment, extremists of all kinds particularly religious zealots and others political mischief makers...

Gossip is one major character exhibited by a lot of us unknowingly because most of the time we did not intend to gossip but we find ourselves like involuntary actions doing it. Gossip operates in every sphere of life but most common is the gossip within the workplace or the business arena. Unlike some measurable attitude problems, gossip cannot be measured because nobody would agree that he or she is a gossip, therefore finding out the actual statistics of the population that gossips is quiet difficult. Gossip in recent times has been attributed to the women because of their verbal power, they said “Men think and Women gossip” but that is not the case now because we have also discovered that men also gossip even from the pictrue below. So what would you say about that? Now we begin to understand that gossip is not the resultant effect of verbal power but an attitude problem that has the capacity to influence anyone regardless gender. Gossip is groundless, baseless idle talks an...

By Pastor Sam Adeyemi, edited by Ik Solomon   Supposing you set your alarm to wake you up in the morning, and you are woken up by the alarm, and what you are purposed to do in the morning is to do some exercise, you feel like you’ve been piling up the pounds or the kilos. The alarm goes up, you wake up, you look at the time its 5:30am, it occurs to you that may be you really don’t need to stand up yet, may be you could leave it till tomorrow, and then you check your bed, it really feels very comfortable, and you feel you can do a little bit more minutes of sleep, so you go back to sleep. Ok, the big question is how do you really feel at end of the day? Usually you feel a sense of lose because you know what you could have gained that you wanted to gain that you could not. Will that be a disaster? May be not, not on the immediate but the reality about life is that those decisions either to get up in the morning, or to get some more sleep, or to eat those particular kinds of food t...

The purpose for entering any career is to advance in that career which will translate to advancement in other areas of life of an individual. Over the years it has been discovered that a lot of people are victims of stagnation in their career which has lead to frustrations and left many un-actualized. There are many things that can show that one’s career is stagnated and there many causes of career stagnation. Some people think it is caused by spiritual manipulation, others think economic factors may result to career stagnation, and some others think it sometimes happens as a result of government policies. So many people are stagnated in various careers and in various sectors even in the religious sector. When we talk about CAREER we simply mean a job or a profession that some does for a long time or a period of time spent in a job or profession, but sometimes we may spend our life time in this profession. STAGNATION simply means to stop developing, progressing, or moving. I...

Virtual assistant jobs are amazingly becoming very popular. Becoming a virtual assistant allows you to work from home without the hassle of commuting back and forth to work, saving you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars every year. A VA (Virtual Assistant), also known as a personal office assistant, or virtual personal assistant, is someone who provides a variety of administrative assistance to clients from home. This type of work is different from your usual call center job, where you provide customer care for clients need from home. As a virtual assistant, you will basically do any and everything from clerical and   data entry   to customer service, real estate, and telemarketing. Basically, anything that your clients wants done! Things You Need To Be and Ideal Virtual Assistant A computer with high speed internet Personal phone line Knowledge of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Google Suite: Gmail, Calendar, Chrome, Drive, Plus, Hangouts, Voice Microsoft S...

Eric Aniva was arrested in July on presidential orders after he  admitted having unprotected sex with girls as young as 12   - and keeping quiet about his HIV-positive status.  Aniva says he was hired by the girls' relatives to take part in a sexual initiation ceremony which they believe "shakes off" the girl's childhood "dust" so that she can enter adulthood.  When Malawi's president, Peter Mutharika, ordered the arrest, he wanted Aniva tried for defiling young girls, but no girls came forward to testify against him. So instead Aniva is being tried for another ritual defined as a "harmful cultural practice" under section five of Malawi's Gender Equality Act, in which he had sex with newly bereaved widows.  On this charge, two women have come forward to give evidence against Aniva, though one says he had sex with her before the practice was banned, and the other says she managed to escape before the sexual act took place.  "Widow ...

By   KelseyWarner   on March 4, 2016 Inside Gov As the final remaining year of the Obama administration is well underway, the legacy that President   Barack Obama   will forge in history remains hotly contested.   Conservatives argue   Obama is the “worst president ever” while   liberals have claimed   he has “done more good for this country than any president before him.” He likely will not play the role of a “lame-duck” president, as the administration has yet to slow down. Obama currently finds himself in the middle of a   heated standoff   with the Republican-led Senate to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. He still pursues a workable   plan to close GuantanamoBay , one of his 2008 campaign promises. As his term nears its end, the passionate, vocal opinions on both sides of the political aisle may reach their crescendo as his legacy becomes ripe for interpretation. When reflecting on Obama’s time in the White House, the f...